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 SHORT NOTES. 



Introduced Asters (see p. 83). — I have in my lierbarium, 

 named by Dr. Asa Gray, the following: — (1) A. salu/nus, Willd., 

 from Wickon Fen ; Springwood Park Woods, near Kelso, from A. 

 Brotherstou. (2) A. lom/ifolius, Lam., by Tay-side, near Perth, J. 

 Sim; and Kiunoul, A. Newton. (3) A. lyaniculatm, Lam., from a 

 bog by the south-west side of Derwentwater, M. Wright. (4) A. 

 Novi-Behjii, Linn., from Tay-side, near Perth, J. Sim. (5) A. 

 Tradescanti, Linn., from Thoruhill Bridge, near Thames Ditton, 

 H. C. Watson, as A. leucanthemm. This Dr. Gray named for me 

 ''A. Tnidescanti, pro parte," but apparently for Mr. Britten A. 

 paniculatHs. It may be the same as the Derwentwater A. pani- 

 culatus, but appears somewhat different. — C. C. Babington. 



Carex MONTANA, Liun., IN Ea8t Sussex. — I had the pleasure to 

 rediscover this rare Carex on some heathy ground between Heath- 

 field Station and the wall of Heathtield Park, in the Cuckmere dis- 

 trict, East Sussex, on the 4th April last, when it was in full 

 flower, but with fruit only just formed. It was first discovered by 

 Mr. Mitten, in 1842, near Tunbridge Wells, where I gathered 

 specimens last year ; and Mr. Hemsley informs me that there are 

 specimens in Mr. Borrer's lierbarium at Kew, collected at Heath- 

 field on the 2nd May, 1849, since Avhicli time it appears to have 

 quite escaped observation. Mr. Watson, in Top. Bot., states that 

 it only occurs in six counties in England. — F. C. S. Roper. 



De\^lopment of Osmunda regalis. — Mr. Hobkirk's assertion, 

 that " all the gardeners and fern-growers to whom he has shown 

 the sj)ecimens [of the early stages of growth of Osmunda re<)aLis\ 

 state that it is quite new to them," is rather startling. I am 

 quite able to confirm, from my own observation, Mr. Hobkirk's 

 account of the various stages which the fern passes through. I 

 remember once biinging home young plants in the first and second 

 year's stages, which I found growing on the rhizome of an old 

 I)lant in a bog ditch in Cornwall ; but they did not survive the 

 first winter in cultivation. — Alfred W. Bennett. 



Tolypella glomerata, Leonli., in South Lancashire. — A few 

 days ago Mr. Searle, of Ashston, sent me from Southport, a box of 

 aquatic plants, and among them several species of Characea;. One 

 of these proved to be the above species. No TuhjpeUa seems to 

 have been recorded from the West of England ; hence this station 

 is interesting, as well also from its being about mid-way between 

 Mr. Nicholson's Yorkshire station (Jourii. Bot., 1880, p. 373) and 

 tliat of Dublin. — Arthur Bennett. 



